Re: problem with Kbabel v. 1.11.2

[Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

On Friday 01 September 2006 04:39, Christian Perrier wrote:
> When a PO file (say, ar.po) is apparently invalid, the following
> command can help spotting the error:
>
> msgfmt -o /dev/null -c ar.po
>
> It will output the number of the line where the error happens.
>
> I highly recommend ALL translators to validate their translation files
> this way before sending them to maintainers or committing them. It
> usually helps to spot invalid format errors, plural forms errors,
> variable substitution errors, etc.
Validation is very important, here are some few scripts to check lot of files 
at once:

for i in `find . -name "*.po"`; do echo $i; msgfmt -o /dev/null -cv $i; done

for i in `find . -name "*.po"`; do echo $i; msgfmt -o /dev/null --statistics 
$i; done

Use the second one with KDE. KDE has a special plural form syntax, when the 
number of plurals is not equal to 2 msgfmt -o /dev/null -c kde-ar.po returns 
errors which are correct. msgfmt -o /dev/null --statistics is sufficient to 
ensure the validity of KDE files.